Thunder Point

This, the second in the Sean Dillon series, contains plenty of likable characters and a fun plot, and the settings--both above and beneath the water--are a treat. The only downside is that there are once again just too many eye-rolling (as in massively dumb) decisions being made by the characters, and almost all of the plot developments served by those dumb decisions could have been achieved without making the characters appear to be so dense. Still, a fun read, and I admit that I'm hooked. Dillon #3 will surely appear in my hands sooner, rather than later. My biggest question for Sean's next outing (and a bit of a spoiler, so stop now if you don't want to see it): will Higgins have yet another woman fall off of a balcony? :)

A riveting ride that will keep you turning pages to the surprising end. The cast of characters is tight, like the writing and the plot. Irishman Sean Dillon, ex-IRA and all round Bad Boy is given what seems a suicidal task.

He has to find a brief case that leading Nazi Martin Bormann took into hiding with him. The contents of the case has information if made public would destroy the reputations of powerful people. The brief case is deep under water in a dangerous place off the Virgin Islands.

A pro-Nazi criminal, Santiago, also wants the brief case. Santiago always seems a step ahead of Dillon. But the Irish man has formidable friends. The quest for the briefcase has plenty of tense moments and twists.

Thunder Point is great escapism. show more Higgins's word pictures create atmosphere that takes the reader to the action, of which there's plenty. show less

I have read 3 books by Higgins and to be kind, some of them were stinkers. This, on the other hand has an intriguing and believable plot that keeps you interested from start to finish. Unlike some of the Higgins book that require you to keep track of far too many characters, this one is straight forward and once you start the book, the premise is so compelling, you must see it through

Thunder Point is a novel in the Sean Dillon series. Amateur diver Henry Baker goes diving in the Caribbean, when he finds the wreck of a German U-boat. Inside he finds a briefcase which he takes back home with him. On his way home he meets his friend, diver Bob Carney, and lies to him about where he's been. When he opens the briefcase he finds a list of documents in German. His inability to read German frustrates him but one name leaps out at him: Martin Bormann. The dates on the diary appear strange to Baker as they seem to indicate that the submarine sailed after the war was over.

Jack Higgins is the dean of world-class thriller writers. From The Eagle Has Landed to Eye of the Storm, his novels have entertained millions with their relentlessly paced mix of intrigue, suspense, and larger-than-life characters. 1945. Thunder Point opens at the Fuhrer Bunker in Berlin, the day before Adolf Hitler's suicide. The Fuhrer arranges for Reichsleiter Martin Bormann to flee Germany by air to Norway, where a German U-boat waits to take him to South America.... 1992. Sean Dillon, the elusive terrorist from Eye of the Storm, is facing a firing squad in war-torn Yugoslavia. He is saved at the last minute by his old nemesis, Brigadier Charles Ferguson - head of Group Four, the British prime minister's personal action unit. In show more exchange for his salvation, Dillon must take on a "black job" for Ferguson in the Caribbean. The wreck of the German U-boat has been discovered at Thunder Point, off St. John in the American Virgin Islands. In the U-boat is a diary kept by the captain, as well as the contents of the watertight briefcase Martin Bormann had with him on that fateful trip. The papers not only name important members of the British establishment and Parliament who were Nazi sympathizers, but also contain the Windsor Protocol - a document signed by the Duke of Windsor himself in which he undertook to ascend the British throne on the successful invasion of Britain by German forces in 1940. Ferguson and the prime minister are determined that Britain and the royal family be spared the horrific embarrassment of these discoveries. But other individuals, including someone high within the British government itself, are determined to find out the secrets of Bormann's briefcase for their own sinister reasons. Sweeping from England to the Caribbean and back with ever-growing momentum, Thunder Point brings together a remarkable set of heroes and villains in the most desperate struggle of their lives. It is a complex, brilliantly executed story of high-explosive secre show less

After success in recovery of WWII information from 1945 German submarine lost in storm, Sean Dillon is recruited to Ferguson's team.
Not as well written as later books in the Dillon series.

Dillon and company have just begun to get acquainted. Here he uses his skills as a pilot and a diver under severe circumstances. Not an abnormal number of bodies.